Weekly Report - 9 September 2003
PERU: Merino seeks resumption of aerial interdiction programme
Almost a month after US President George Bush authorised the resumption of the antinarcotics aerial interdiction programme in Colombia, Peruvian prime minister Beatriz Merino is off to Washington in the hope of persuading him to do likewise for her country. The programme was suspended two years ago after a US missionary and her daughter were killed when her light aircraft was shot down, mistaken for a drugs flight, over the Peruvian Amazon.
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